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Deepfake tech going to be a serious menace in society: Delhi HC – ET CISO
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Deepfake technology is going to be a serious menace in society and Centre should start thinking about it, Delhi High Court said on Wednesday. The antidote for artificial intelligence can only be technology, it noted.
“What we see through our own eyes and what we have heard through our ears, we can’t trust that. This is very, very shocking. You (central govt) will have to start working on this. You also start thinking about this,” remarked a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela while hearing two petitions against the non-regulation of deepfake technology in the country and the threat of its potential misuse.
The Centre’s counsel submitted that authorities recognise that it is a problem which needs to be dealt with.
Meanwhile, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) in its reply told the high court that it was not empowered to monitor any online content on the internet on a suo motu basis. “Any content/URL/websites on the internet can only be blocked as per the established legal procedure,” it said.
The ministry of electronics and information technologyfurther said that it had taken various steps to address proliferation of harmful applications (AI-enabled and deepfake) and illegal content. In order to ensure an open, safe, trusted and accountable digital ecosystem, Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 had been notified, it added.
The high court then granted two weeks’ time to the petitioners to file an additional affidavit containing their suggestions and listed the matter for further hearing on Oct 24.
While one petition has been filed by journalist Rajat Sharma against the non-regulation of deepfake technology in the country, the other petition has been filed by Chaitanya Rohilla, a lawyer, against deepfakes and the unregulated use of AI.
